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Old 17-03-2009, 06:22 PM
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Some of these are good.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&oq=ferrofluid

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Originally Posted by Baddad View Post
Sounds like interesting stuff. I'd like to see it Marko.

When I was a pre-teenager a pharmacy student showed me how to float a steel sewing needle on water. Its done by maintaining the surface tension of the water intact.

On observing the floating needle there is a depression on the water surface where the needle floats.

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